I am good at suspending my disbelief for a good story. I just need some character depth, a decent plot, and perhaps a sprinkling of funny, suspenseful, or heart-warming moments. While this book had a few heart-warming moments, it lacked all the rest. I truly felt like I was reading an early draft instead of a finished project.
This book is set a few years into the future (2019) and the 3 months of astronaut training were an excellent opportunity for the author to give the reader some Fancy Tech moments, or even some funny crew bounding moments in the Vomit Comet. But no, we get the teens complaining about all the studying they will have to do for a page and a half.
So, we finally launch and we got like 5 days en route to the moon. Surely there will be Fancy Tech moments and embarrassing, yet hilarious moments with food in zero G. But no, the crew makes it to the moon and there are references from the teens about how they still arent sure which astronaut is talking or such.
While this book captured that the teens felt that no adult understood them and all that teen angst that most of us goes through, the portrayal of all the adults as incompetent or uncaring or self-centered was a bit too biased for even my suspended disbelief.
This book is set a few years into the future (2019) and the 3 months of astronaut training were an excellent opportunity for the author to give the reader some Fancy Tech moments, or even some funny crew bounding moments in the Vomit Comet. But no, we get the teens complaining about all the studying they will have to do for a page and a half.
So, we finally launch and we got like 5 days en route to the moon. Surely there will be Fancy Tech moments and embarrassing, yet hilarious moments with food in zero G. But no, the crew makes it to the moon and there are references from the teens about how they still arent sure which astronaut is talking or such.
While this book captured that the teens felt that no adult understood them and all that teen angst that most of us goes through, the portrayal of all the adults as incompetent or uncaring or self-centered was a bit too biased for even my suspended disbelief.
